Apple ripping people off with the black MacBook

Here's a question. Who is willing to admit that Apple is simply ripping people off by charging $150 more for black? (I didn't see this argued in another thread)

The definition of ripping someone off is when you take advantage of their desire for your product by charging a price that gives you enormous profits simply because you know people will pay.

If they can sell Ben and Jerry's ice cream for $3.50, but they temporarily charge $7 for a container when a new flavor comes out because they know some fans of Ben and Jerry's will pay it, I'd say that is a ripoff.

Now, I usually consider most of the arguments that Apple is ripping people off as foolishness. If a Mac costed 3 times as much as a PC, you still wouldn't know it was a ripoff until you saw the quarterly profits showing you that they made a lot on each Mac.

Or charging $129 or $329 for an OS upgrade isn't a ripoff until you know the development costs that going into making the OS.

But to charge $150 more for black is a ripoff. This is especially true when you have loyal customers that will happily pay a generous premium for your products, and then you take advantage of that leeway to take it to extremes.

Now I know the heartless Republican types will just talk about "supply and demand", because they always have some philosophical excuse for not thinking in human terms. But for the non-kooks, how many of you think this is simply a slap in the face to customers? If I am a regular at a restaurant and I already pay a premium, I would consider it a slap in the face if they decided to charge me double because seating was temporarily limited. I know prices can fluctuate, but there has to be some decency involved.